While I’m thanking people, the book also benefitted from two separate phases of proof-reading. Martin Keegan and Alex Chan sent me copious lists of corrections to the almost-complete manuscript that I had prepared before Christmas; then, after I’d integrated those corrections and written the last few sections, Gabriella Marino and Jon Wensley read the whole thing and found a whole nother stack of mistakes. I deeply appreciate all this help.

Update (later the same day)

A couple of people have pointed out to me that while the links in the first 38 entries of the Table of Contents (“About this book” to “Episode 6.13. The Wedding of River Song”) work correctly, the last 36 link (“More thoughts on The Wedding of River Song” to “Where next?”) do not. They seem to link back themselves.

At the moment, I have no idea why this is: all the links were auto-generated by OpenOffice’s table-of-contents generator, so they should all act the same way. What’s more, in the MS-Word-formatted document that I uploaded to the Kindle store, all the links do work. I’d welcome any thoughts on what might be causing the problem, and how I could fix it.

(Once it’s fixed, I will of course upload a new version of the e-book, which should be freely available to anyone who’s bought it.)

Thanks, kit! At some point (after the paperback and hardback editions are taken care of) I plan to produce other e-book formats, probably via Smashbooks. I hope that will produce iBooks, among its other formats.

Don’t forget to leave a review on the Amazon page if you enjoy the book (or indeed if you don’t).

Definately let us know when dead-tree is available; I’ll probably order one of those as well as an electronic version .. I always consider the ebook versions ‘temporary.’

(epub is my preferred format; I don’t do Kindle or the other nasty formats that tend to lose your data over time. Calibre open source freeware can often convert from kindle to epub though, so I may give it a shot!)

i) Works fine on Kindle reader Android (Nexus 7)
ii) Works fine on Kindle PC (using “Crossover” for Linux, to run the Windows app under Linux)
iii) Calibre can load up the .azw Kindle file just fine, and export to an epub

A native epub down the road may be nice for sticklers like me, but I’m okay with the non-DRM conversion process there. Amazon can’t revoke it :)

Thanks, Jeff, that’s helpful. Yes, I took a peek at it on the Kindle reader of an Android phone, and it seemed to work fine (though the Kindle app was amazingly slow). Amazingly, it hadn’t occurred to me use Calibre to make the EPUB. If I do that, do you know of sites that I can upload the result to, and have it sold in places like Barnes & Noble?

At the time of writing the total seem to be:
Kindle at amazon.com: 25 copies
Kindle at amazon.co.uk: 19 copies
Kindle at amazon.ca: 3
Paperback at lulu.com: 7

So all together, 54 copies. Not impressive, I was hoping at least get into the few hundreds. That said, copies continue to crawl out, so we’ll see how things look in a year’s time. The good is that I now have reviews on both amazon.com and amazon.co.uk, all of them five-star, so that might help to give the book legs.

Clearly I should send review copies to influential fans. But I have no idea who whose people are. Anyone?